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Sentence Examples Best known to sherry producers in the Jerez region of Spain, Palomino seems to struggle when planted outside of that country. Then he went to the table, took the rest of his sherry, corked the bottle, and left. Palomino is a white grape widely grown in Spain and South Africa, and best known for its use in the manufacture of sherry. Now stir the rice into the buttery juices, then pour in the lobster bisque and the sherry and season. Guests have been asked for eight sherry glasses, eight champagne flutes, eight whisky tumblers, eight brandy goblets and two decanters. Thinly slice half the strawberries, mash or sieve the remainder and mix with the cream, lemon juice, sherry or wine and sugar. His widely-publicised friendship with the former topless model set sherry glasses rattling among the blue-rinse brigade. The drink could really consist of nearly anything, as long as it had ale or sherry as a base, apples or cider, and mulled spices. A day in advance, put the citrus zests, juice, sherry and brandy in a bowl to soak. A few bodegas sweeten their wines with fortified Moscatel but this tends to produce a rather obvious, aromatic, grapey style of sherry. Every other department that issued invitations offered sherry and nibbles to graduands and parents. Pour in enough miso or stock to cover, shake in a good measure of tamari or soy sauce, a drop or two of nam pla and sherry, stir and cover. Mille feuille of foie gras, boudin noir, braised turnips and apple with a sherry vinegar sauce. See, if I wanted to go out and return minus all my valuables, I could do that perfectly well on my own with the help of a few snifters of sherry. Dessert was warm chocolate bread pudding with 12-year-old Glenfarclas, which tastes of sweet sherry. But from the 17th century much of Huelva's production was sold to Jerez, where it was blended anonymously into sherry soleras. He dropped them into a cast-iron skillet with olive oil and garlic, doused them with sherry and butter, and gussied them up with vermicelli. It's very alcoholic, closer to the strength of a good sherry than an innocuous home brew. Oloroso is an aromatic, nutty sherry made in both dry and slightly sweet styles. I went to the bar and asked for a dry sherry and sat in a discreet corner behind a decorative shrub. Show More Sentences Since it became a region in its own right, Montilla has had to contend with a popular image as an inferior, cheap alternative to sherry. With a deep golden colour, this tastes rather like a dry sherry that has seen plenty of oak, or perhaps an aged Vouvray. We'll be passing around large and clearly labelled jars of PROZAC and carry hip flasks of sherry. Cook in a steamer until tender, adding the extra half cup of sherry to the liquid in the pan underneath for added moisture. Champagne and chilled fino sherry both perform this role with aplomb but sometimes it pays to go for something a little off-piste. Thus I find myself drawn to foods marinated in white wine, red wine, sherry, champagne, dessert wine, or whatever is in the cupboard. I poured in a large glug of sherry and cooked further until the alcohol had evaporated. He poured himself a glass of sherry and, turning, rested his hand on the wooden counter attached to the front of the cellaret. We like to get into the cooking sherry while we are preparing for the invasion. Keep it in the fridge and use as necessary, finally ending up with the gingered sherry, which you can use in a trifle or stir-fry. For the truffle sabayon, in a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the sherry vinegar, shallots, and thyme sprig. She is partial to a small sherry at lunchtime and a brandy and dry ginger or a gin-and-tonic in the evening. Add the bay, thyme, rosemary, garlic, orange zest, cinnamon and a splash of dry sherry. Wrinkly tights, coconut macaroons, eye shadow and Mrs Overall's home-made sherry were all visibly waiting in the wings. Ice cream for the children, shared apple and blackberry crumble for my wife and me, while my parents shared a sherry and raspberry trifle. A glass of sherry was served on our arrival, followed by a delicious three course meal. The fact is that when we had a big debate on port and sherry wine, those members were not here in the Chamber. When she wasn't fishing for compliments she was sitting in front of one of the televisions and indulging in a rather large glass of sherry. Some wines, however, such as oloroso sherry, tawny port, and Madeira, owe their character to deliberate exposure to oxygen. Other countries have tried to compete against port with various fortified wines, but for me the likes of sherry or Madeira just can't compare. Show More Sentences Usually we'd have a half of beer, but on this occasion someone suggested a glass of sherry, because it dried you out. The whole was accompanied by a profusion of wines, followed by nuts and preserved fruits, then Madeira, port or sherry. This is lighter than most dark beers, almost a deep rouge, but it still packs a punch with its Christmas pudding drenched in sherry aroma. She stopped only for a sip of sherry from the crystal tass on the countertop. Mix the oil, orange juice and zest and sherry, and add salt and pepper to taste. It's hard to believe she could drink more than a sherry glass of cider without unleashing a technicolor yawn into the gutter, so to speak. Mama had Missy make her famous corn chowder, ginger beef, carrot pudding, fresh manchet bread, and sherry and vanilla cream custards. The marinade of cornflour, sesame oil and rice wine or dry sherry tenderises the meat and supplies a thickening agent for the sauce. Add the garlic, maple syrup, cinnamon, rosemary, and sherry vinegar and bring to a boil. Deglaze with the sherry vinegar and cook until reduced by half, then return the pork joint to the pan. In the US, Glenmorangie has released versions finished in fino sherry barrels. There will also be mulled sherry and mince pies in the centre's food court. One list of these contains such favourites as cheesecake, warm apple pie, fudge cake, sherry trifle, summer pudding and banana split. At slightly higher concentrations, it contributes to the distinctive and characteristic smell of fino sherry and other flor wines. Add crushed garlic and when it begins to brown, pour in strained marinade with the fino sherry. Add the sherry and chopped dill to the remaining sauce and check the seasoning. So with dinner in mind and a recent chat to people in Spain, I think a small sherry is in order. It wasn't so long ago that a request for a third glass of fino sherry would raise a few eyebrows and mutterings about a drink problem. Cyprus has imported the Palomino vine because of its dependence on producing inexpensive copies of sherry. You had quite a lot of sherry old bean, and as you got up to leave you mistook the window for a door. Show More Sentences Add the sherry and sugar, and sweat for a further five minutes, until it goes thick and sticky. Perhaps in her doddering senility, she was subconsciously confusing it with all the dry sherry she was knocking back. My favorite starter was goat-cheese-and-walnut ravioli with a sherry beet sauce. There is also a faint undertone of tobacco and a slight hint of dry sherry. Mix the crushed garlic, chopped chilli, paprika, sherry and olive oil, and spoon over the prawns. The cured ham and sherry give a wonderfully rounded Spanish flavour to the clams and the broth. They had three type of manzanilla sherry on the wine list but none in stock and tried to fob us off with white port. When all this was melted, he added a small glass of sherry in which he had mixed a teaspoon of cornstarch. She grapples with the issues of the day and puts them to bed with humour, sincerity and a small glass of sherry. The long table in the centre was set with plates of mince pies and glasses of sherry for the carol singers. The brine of capers lingers too long after a taste of stewed octopus in sherry vinegar. Make the dressing by mixing the oil, sherry vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper and the crushed garlic. Add a generous slosh of sherry, let it bubble for a moment, and follow up with a more modest splash of wine or cider vinegar. Drunk straight from the fridge, this delivers the colour, aroma and flavour of a dry amontillado sherry. If you have time, soak raisins or sultanas in the muscat or sherry first, then pour them on the ice cream along with the liquid. Someone else requested top tips for cooking Christmas dinner after one sherry too many. My friend the Italian snob turned up her nose at the pan-roasted chicken, unmoved by a savory sauce laced with white truffles and sherry. Depending on the style of the wine, sherry is fortified with grape spirit known as aguardiente to between 15.5 and 22 per cent. We waited an age to be served and I finally placed an order for a glass of Manzanilla sherry. Add the shallots, sherry vinegar, white wine vinegar, tarragon, and parsley and simmer until the shallots are tender. Show More Sentences Four classes of sherry bodega are recognized by the Consejo Regulador. Liquidise ripe toms with red onion, cucumber, red pepper, extra virgin olive oil, sherry or balsamic vinegar and chill to let the flavours develop. The essential ingredients are sponge cake soaked in sherry or white wine, rich custard, fruit or jam, and whipped cream, layered in a glass dish in that order. Sipping a glass of sherry in the lounge of his elegantly appointed Westminster apartment, the gentleman appears the epitome of a retired Foreign Office mandarin. Aromatic floral whiffs of soft ripe apricot can't hide drier fruit flavours that have an almost fino sherry slant with a mild green olive and salty tang on the finish. Measure the brandy, sherry and cream and have everything close at hand. The modern sherry is a descendent of Falstaff's sack, though shortly after his day it began to be made by the more complicated modern process which includes adding brandy. Well, the sherry allows more flavor to come out of the wood than could otherwise be extracted. The next thing I remember was waking up in his bed back at the sherry, naked. Closing his interview with Angelou, Plimpton wondered how sherry influenced her rituals after finishing a project. Eggs are also called for in stuffings and sauces, and a fortified, sweetish wine such as Marsala or sherry or Madeira is often chosen for veal cookery. The characters are relaxing, enjoying mead, grog, and various other old-timesy type drinks that no one actually drinks anymore like sarsaparilla, sherry, or wine coolers. This is absolutely perfect, of course, old barrels are made of oak, and marinaded in sherry and whisky, so all the flavour imparted have much to recommend them. Red wine is used for poaching pears and macerating strawberries while dessert wines such as Marsala and sherry are used in, respectively, zabaglione and English trifle. She drank sherry because she enjoyed it, not because it was popular or stylish. Add the belly pork, 150 ml soy sauce, the sherry, the halved red chilli, two cloves of garlic, two thirds of the sliced root ginger and the star anise. If you require more than the usual mince pie and glass of sherry left on the mantelpiece, please leave your order in the comments and I'll see what I can do. At Christmas we'll have a glass of sherry, but normally we don't drink. They are people in the last years of their life who like a port or sherry. I'd be forced to sing Molly Malone or something, my sister and I would have to get up and do a bit of Irish dancing and all the biddies would nod happily and sip their sherry. Show More Sentences When a ham is roasting in the oven with a bit of sherry poured over it, or a trifle, for goodness' sake, has a bit of sherry in it, is sherry not a cooking condiment? Mincepies were originally made in twelves and should be offered by a friend-they go with anything, sherry, mulled wine, tea or coffee and can be eaten at any time of day. Are there robes and fireside chats with goblets of sherry, that sort of thing? No, ha, nothing quite so effete. I said, for shame, these men will see our slovenliness, these sticky sherry glasses everywhere, these newspapers scattered on the carpets since the maidservants were no more. Of course Christmas Day kicks off with a glass of Buck's Fizz accompanied by bagels and smoked salmon before the neighbours call round for sherry and mince pies. In the sitting room chintz, collections of sherry glasses and relentless Paisley-esque carpet all conspire to create an idiosyncratic replica of Victoriana. Fewer scales are needed to produce a consistent amontillado or oloroso sherry than a fino or manzanilla sherry because these fuller, richer wines vary less from year to year. Cream sherry is actually made from the Oloroso variety of sherry. Mine was only a middle-ranking independent school, so that's why I was relatively intelligible but prone to waffling after a few glasses of sherry. Now, it's almost routine to find single malts matured in used casks which once held cognac, fino sherry, Madeira, Malaga, Bordeaux and other wines and spirits. The best white port from Malvasia grape is a light, stunningly dry and nutty drink similar to fino sherry and best served chilled from the fridge. First comes the sherry casks, then there's the traditional bourbon casks from America, and finally it is moved to new oak casks, coopered from American timber. The leader of that Party is put down as a dry sherry man, a potation now associated, if at all, with golf club socials that are likely to be all-white and elderly. Although it is distilled 3 times in a pot still it is still a fairly strong whiskey that must be aged in used sherry, rum, or bourbon barrels for a minimum of 3 years. The wine comes in a bewildering range of styles from the ultra-sweet to a bone dry version which more closely resembles a dry fino sherry than a dessert wine. When the flames have died, pour in the dry sherry then the cream. Those same people now pay more for sherry and cigarettes, and, if this Government has its way, they will not now be able to have a durry in the Returned Services Association. Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted. Traditionally, a barleywine or port are paired with Blue Stilton, but it also goes well with sweet sherry or Madeira wine. They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards. Show More Sentences Add the noodles, soy sauces, rice wine or sherry, salt, pepper, sugar and spring onions. Among Maselli's favorite fava dishes is a fava bean gazpacho with sherry raisins and green grapes, which he has offered at Marche. What makes it so good, and where should the sherry virgin begin? This acetal is a principal flavour compound in sherry, and contributes fruitiness to the aroma. My recipe for Eccles cake with a Stilton and sherry butter, which matches terrifically well with cream sherry. On the other side of the sherry spectrum aged olorosos can posses a stunning complexity and unique drinking experience that demands respect. The boxes would reek of the smell of rich plum cake, with brandy or sherry douched over it. As Mediterranean resorts suffer lager louts, the new scourge of one haven is fuelled by sweet sherry and milk stout. Desserts will include Christmas pudding with brandy sauce, homemade sherry trifle, chocolate torte and a cheeseboard. In Andalucia, sherry is made from the Palomino grape, in the area of Jerez de la Frontera, in southern Spain. I'll take another glass of the sherry wine, just to wet my whistle, as the vulgar saying is, before I begin. By the end of the tour, the author could hardly manage solid food, subsisting on champagne and eggs beaten in sherry. Other dishes enjoyed at this time of year include cock-a-leekie soup, bannocks, cullen skink, haggis, neeps and tatties, followed by cranachan or sherry trifle. Combine soy sauce, sherry, brown sugar, chile paste and nam pla in a small bowl and, with a wire whisk, beat until blended and sugar is dissolved. Barrels in which wines, sherry, and spirits such as brandy, Irish whiskey, Scotch whisky and Bourbon whiskey are aged are made from European and American oak. But in Spain, sherry reigns and it's easy to see why with a glass of crisp fi no or manzanilla in your hand as the sun beats down or the barbie smoke drifts over the lawn. The rest of us are only a sweet sherry away from the rechabites. We decided to try two starters, the pork fillet medallions cooked in dry sherry served with potato wedges and the aubergine pyramid with feta cheese. Antonio Flores, Gonzales Byass's chief winemaker for 30 years, came with Mauricio to London and explained the significance of flor and the reason why sherry is fortified. Again there's a pressie for kids and mince pie with sherry for grown ups. Show More Sentences Now made on Grenada, Grand Havana Ruin is a Cuban-styled spirit double-distilled in copper pot stills and matured in sherry casks for up to seven years. He adds a good splash of lemon juice and apple juice, shakes it like Santa's sack and tops it with Pedro Ximenez sherry, to give a delicious nuttiness. To understand how versatile these fortified wines can be it's best to think of sherry as a spectrum that ranges from bone dry, crisp fino through to treacly richness. Examples from Classical Literature This mousse can be flavored with a tablespoonful of kirsch, rum, or brandy instead of sherry. To a bottle of hock add three wine-glasses of sherry, one lemon sliced, and some balm or borage. Serve with the tutti-frutti a sauce of whipped cream flavored with kirsch, maraschino, or sherry. Nobody offered me any sherry, so I thought I would try whether I could not obtain it medicinally. Essence of anchovy is made sometimes with sherry, or madeira, instead of water, or with the addition of mushroom ketchup. Break five eggs in a basin, sweeten them with castor sugar, pour in a sherry glassful of rum. He helped himself to an extra glass of sherry before he put away the wine in the cellaret. Never can I say that my case is desperate while you can swallow your chicken-broth and sip your amontillado sherry. All clear soups ought not to be too strong of meat, and must be of a light brown sherry or straw color. Garnish with julienne of breast of pheasants, truffles, and some dry sherry. Make some aspic jelly with gelatine, tarragon vinegar, and a little sherry. His last touch was to supplement the decanter of sherry with a bottle of vodka. But he took me to his own house for a glass of sherry and a biscuit, and there it wasn't so rotten. Then pour over them a glass of sherry, a glass of brandy, and a glass of maraschino. Found insensible with a bottle of sherry in his pocket, an East Ham labourer was fined ten shillings for being drunk. So I left him alone in his consulting-room, munching bread and ham, and sipping his wineglassful of dry sherry. The cyder is of the color of sherry, and every whit as fine and clear. The liquor was sherry, and it took nine bottles of it to lay us both up. Didn't I think that Burgundy was better than port and sherry? And that pale sherry, and that Chablis, and that exquisite cup of Mocha? Show More Sentences Serve in chafing dish, with dry sherry, and toast on the side. Oldaker sipped his glass of old Oloroso sherry and discoursed. This new cargo was destined for the coast of the Duchy of Lucca, and consisted almost entirely of Havana cigars, sherry, and Malaga wines. Let them soak until a little softened in maraschino, or kirsch, or sherry. Pour in the sherry and lemon juice, and add the forcemeat balls. You should have had a glass of sherry the moment we landed here. At the inquiry McKenna said he had given Deerfield Sunset a routine capful of sherry in the week before the Derby final. Let them absorb hot syrup at 30, flavored with kirsch or sherry. One glass of sherry, a tablespoon of molasses, and a tablespoon of sugar. Its palate includes lots of sherry, plenty of malt, and an overall sweetish, rounded character. Add a glass of Marsala or sherry wine and whip until it thickens. One tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce may be used instead of the sherry. He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow. The other fresh style is manzanilla, which is fino sherry produced in a town right on the seacoast. I can DAE them sherry at a figure that'll tak' th' breath frae them. He drew the cork from a bottle of sherry, and decanted the wine. I drank sherry and Lafitte by the glassful in my discomfiture. Served ice cold in a wine glass, dry sherry tastes delicious with salt and vinegar crisps, salty almonds, olives, manchego cheese, serrano ham, anchovies, oysters. It thundered some foreign name loudly but inaudibly, and the hotel proprietor moved more sharply towards it than he had done for Flambeau's sherry. Gonzalez Byass, one of the leading producers of sherry, are keen to challenge that fusty image as I discovered when I talked to Mauricio Gonzalez in London. Show More Sentences We didn't know cocktails in those days, but we had sherry and bitters. On the day when I was articled, no festivity took place, beyond my having sandwiches and sherry into the office for the clerks, and going alone to the theatre at night. Here one of the waiters, who had been for some minutes busy making a queer-looking mixture of egg and sherry, respectfully presented it on a large silver salver. Hugh chose vitelli fegato, ie pan fried calves liver, caramelised white onions, hand cut chips, crispy pancetta in a sherry vinegar and shallot sauce. Find more words! 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